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Loss for words: Art, language and the challenges of living on a changing planet

  • Written by Faith Kearns, Water Analyst, California Institute for Water Resources, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
imageDo we need a new word for the feeling of guilt one gets from watering plants during a drought?ana_carrington/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

The common wisdom about climate change is that it’s too big and too abstract for humans to comprehend, that it’s too hard to talk about. But it turns out many people are having tangible experiences of our...

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